Purely Appalachia Craft Empowerment

Purely Appalachia Crafts Center is located in the historic Lay’s Furniture and Hardware Building in downtown Coeburn, features a retail shop with a wide selection of quality handmade crafts from southwest Virginia. Items include quilts, pottery, brooms, weaving, candles, and soaps. Classes are offered in quilting, pottery and other traditional crafts. The center also hosts live music every Friday night.

These last pictures are especially for MCM.

More Pictures from the Gorge

Side trail down to the river looking back up towards the main Gorge trail.

Another small seam of coal.

Bags of what appear to be hardened cement that have been used to prevent anyone from getting any of the coal out.

A small creek with a waterfall that runs into the gorge a couple of miles from the beginning of the trail.

When I was much younger, I used to spend days under these cliffs looking for Native American artifacts (arrowheads and other flint tools). Generations of searchers have piled up the dirt so high that it's difficult to find anything any more. Of course all of the large fallen rocks make for problems too.

Guest River Gorge Trail

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The bottom black layer is a seam of coal.

Man hole in the tunnel.

Don't mess with me and I won't mess with you!